Monday, April 30, 2012

Speak the TRUTH in LOVE

 

Ephesians 4:15“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.”

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This verse is SO important to us as believers today. So many times if one of us is stumbling, others around us either don’t address it at all, brushing it off, or when they do address it they sugar coat it and say, “oh everyone struggles with that”. Yes it’s good to relate, but when we leave it at ‘relating’ and don’t push or spur each other on towards Christ and towards change, then those stumbling will just be caught in the ugly cycle again and again and again. When we speak the truth in LOVE and NOT condemnation, there is respect in that, respect for the other person saying, “I love you so much that I can’t let you stay in this cycle” and I don’t know about you, but I would hope someone would do the same for me. It might sting at the moment, but I would rather someone put stinging, healing medicine on my wound rather than let it sit and leave a scar later.

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